Dave Fox’s new electronics company, Foxrox, recently hit the market with its Captain Coconut pedal. While most of the interest in the pedal has been through word of mouth, the buzz has been strong, with an increasing amount of inquiries to check out the pedal. VG was lucky enough to scoop up one of the…

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Chris Siegmund is an up-and-coming guitar/amp wizard from Vienna, Austria. A unique type of craftsman, Siegmund is a musician born to a family of architects and furniture makers. He began working with fine woods, and applying the elaborate carving skills of his family’s heritage to building instruments. In addition to creating beautiful instruments, Siegmund learned…

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The RockSlide Guitar Slide is the creation of Mark Morse, a guitarist who wanted more from a guitar slide. Morse found most conventional slides uncomfortable because they’d pinch the fleshy part of his finger when he’d bend his hand into playing position. That frustration led to experimentation with the shape of the slide and research…

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Before starting his Black Creek Musical Instrument Company, upstate New Yorker Chris Hofschneider spent time building instruments with other members of what has grown into the “Woodstock Contingent,” an elite group of builders that includes Stuart Spector, Michael Tobias, Harvey Citron, and Joe Veillette, whose shops are also located in the Woodstock area. Black Creek’s…

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